Kaya may refer to:

People

Kaya (given name) Kaya is a common given name in several cultures. Turkish name * Kaya Arıkoğlu (born 1949), American architect and urban designer *Kaya Erdem (born 1928), Turkish politician * Kaya Köstepen (1934–2011), Turkish footballer * Kaya Peker (born 198 ...

* Kaya (surname)

Places

* Kaya, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso, capital of the department * Kaya Airport, serving the town *

Kaya Department Kaya is a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province in central Burkina Faso. Its capital is the town of Kaya Kaya may refer to: People *Kaya (given name) *Kaya (surname) Places *Kaya, Burkina Faso, a town in Burkina Faso, capital of the dep ...

, a department or commune of Sanmatenga Province in central Burkina Faso * Kaya, Fethiye, a village in Muğla Province, Turkey *

Kaya, Hopa Kaya, Hopa is a village in the District of Hopa, Artvin Province, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental count ...

, a village in Artvin Province, Turkey *

Kaya, Kyoto was a town located in Yosa District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 2006, the town had an estimated population of 7,913 and a density of 134 persons per km2. The total area was 59.05 km2. On March 1, 2006, Kaya, along with the towns o ...

, a town located in Yosa District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan * Kaya (Mijikenda), a sacred forest site of the Mijikenda peoples in Kenya * Kaya, South Sudan, a town in South Sudan * Skiu-Kaya, adjoining villages in Ladakh, India * Kaya confederacy, an alternate romanization of the ancient

Gaya confederacy Gaya (, ) was a Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period. The traditional period used by historians for Gaya chronology is AD 42–53 ...

on the Korean peninsula

Popular culture

* ''Kaya'' (film), a 1969 Yugoslav film * Kaya FM, a radio station in Johannesburg, South Africa * ''Kaya'' (TV series), a scripted MTV drama television series

Anime

* Kaya (''One Piece''), a fictional character in the anime and manga ''One Piece'' * Kaya (''Princess Mononoke''), a character from the anime movie ''Princess Mononoke''

Literature

Kaya Press Kaya Press is an independent non-profit publisher of writers of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora. Founded in 1994 by the postmodern Korean writer Soo Kyung Kim, Kaya Press is currently housed in the Department of American Studies and Ethnic ...

, an independent publisher

Music

* ''Kaya'' (album), an album by Bob Marley and the Wailers (1978) ** Kaya Tour, a concert tour organised to support the album ** "Kaya," the title track of the album *

Kaya (Canadian singer) Francis Martin Lavergne (born August 28, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian musician and author."Kay ...

(born 1968), real name Francis Martin Lavergne * Kaya (Japanese musician), former member of Schwarz Stein * Kaya (Mauritian musician) (1960–1999), singer and creator of Seggae *Kaya, a vocal group in the Australian version of ''

The X Factor ''The X Factor'' is a television music competition franchise created by British producer Simon Cowell and his company Syco Entertainment. It originated in the United Kingdom, where it was devised as a replacement for ''Pop Idol'' (2001–2003 ...

'' * Kaya (Bulgarian band) (1999–present)

Other uses

, a confederacy in southern Korea (42–562 CE) * Kaya Airlines, a Mozambican airline * Kaya F.C., a Filipino association football club * Kaya identity, an equation relating factors that determine the level of human impact on climate, in the form of emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide * Kaya (jam), a type of coconut egg jam popular in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia * Kaya-no-miya, the seventh oldest collateral branch (''ōke'') of the Japanese Imperial Family *

Kaya toast Kaya toast is a dish consisting of two slices of toast with butter and kaya (coconut jam), commonly served alongside coffee and soft-boiled eggs. In Singapore, the dish is commonly consumed for breakfast. It became integrated into kopi tiam (c ...

, a popular snack amongst Malaysians and Singaporeans and other SE Asians *

Kaya (tree) ''Torreya nucifera'' is a slow-growing, coniferous tree native to southern Japan and to South Korea's Jeju Island. It is also called Japanese torreya or Japanese nutmeg-yew. Description It grows to 15–25 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diam ...

, ''Torreya nucifera'', or Japanese Nutmeg tree *, several ships *

Trikaya The Trikāya doctrine ( sa, त्रिकाय, lit. "three bodies"; , ) is a Mahayana Buddhist teaching on both the nature of reality and the nature of Buddhahood. The doctrine says that Buddha has three ''kāyas'' or ''bodies'', the '' Dhar ...

, the Buddhist doctrine of three kayas (bodies) of Buddha